GDT: #61 – Sabres at Avalanche – Sat Feb 25, 10:00PM ET – MSG-B

[struckbyaparkedcar]

This is a collection of people that still has not legislated pogoing into hits out of the game so long as the tip of your toe is on the ice, they want to preserve hockey as blood sport in any way possible.

 

[Sabre Dance]

You don't think big market/cap teams have an interest in keeping the cost of their stars down?

I'm not sure how that works. Doesn't make any sense.

 

[pigpen65]

Average goaltending wins the game. Lehner was putrid. He is a choker, pure and simple.

 

[Dreakon13]

Average goaltending wins the game. Lehner was putrid. He is a choker, pure and simple.

Sounds like an overreaction if I've ever heard one.

 

[Sabre Dance]

Average goaltending wins the game. Lehner was putrid. He is a choker, pure and simple.

Average finishing wins that game.

 

[La Cosa Nostra]

I don't follow your argument here. What separates those other leagues from the NHL isn't that their officiating is great and the NHL's sucks. NFL officiating is not exactly celebrated, every football season in the Bills thread people are constantly complaining about calls or non-calls. MLB umpires routinely disrupt games by going on power trips and ejecting players for no reason. I'm not sure where to even start with the NBA where Tim Donaghey was a referee for 13 years.

The one thing the NFL does is call penalties throughout the game. If a team commits an egregious pass interference, do the refs not call it because the team who committed the infraction already has 8 penalties called on them and the other team was only flagged twice? No, that is never the case and they will throw the flag. All referees/umps blow calls throughout the 4 major sports, but the NHL is on a whole different level. Unlike the NHL the refs protect the star players. The NHL celebrates the big, strong Neanderthal type play as "old time hockey". The league was at its best in 05-07. Once they totally flipped the script and let obstruction go is when the play on the ice has deteriorated to the garbage we see today. And the Donaghy thing is what I really don't understand being brought up...like the NBA condoned a ref betting on and changing outcomes of games because he was affiliated with the Gambinos.

 

[CrazyPsycho]

Concussion?

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[TheStorm]

Concussion?

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Hopefully he's ok. Last thing I wanted to hear about him

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

Concussion?

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BAD Sarcasm joke alert..... How can it be an upper body injury when you're playing with your head up your A**?